Chaslands: Pioneering Days in Southern New Zealand

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Page 25Visitors at Sandy's were seldom long seated when someone, peering red-eyed
through the smoke, would suggest that he sing a song. "I canna sing!" How
people came to expect this prompt response. Always he could not sing, he had
nae ...

Page 48Plainly, he was being asked to sing. ... the moment Sandy was making it plain in
the broadest of broad Scots that it was completely outside the bounds of
possibility that he would sing a note that night, people settled in their places.

Page 49He had therefore decided to sing "Donald Blue," as a song that, though not of
course to be compared with the Shepherds, still remained in a class sufficiently
select to be worthy of the attention of any hearer, with the possible exception of ...